Hey gang —

It’s our final day of celebrating the big changes we’re making around here. Zoe Schiffer is now here helping us break news, and Hard Fork, our new podcast with the New York Times, just published its second episode.

One of the promises we’re making this year is that we’re going to deliver more scoops to paid subscribers. On Thursday we did just that, revealing that Spotify had banned an ad campaign for abortion pills under a secret policy that was never posted publicly. We just took down the paywall so you can read it yourself.

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